[mythtv-users] Decent Music Player

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:29 AM, mat <mat at lessermatters.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>  I love MythTV, I really do. I have the backend/frontend running in my
>  livingroom and several machines in the house including an xbox and an
>  eeepc (wirelessly) connecting via frontends. I make full use of the
>  plugins, including the game plugin and the video plugin. However, one
>  thing really let's mythtv down and that's the music plugin.
>
>  My music is organised properly (yunno, making use of the
>  filesystem/folders etc). I have several folders A/B/C/D/(H-I) etc that
>  contain artist/album/tracks. All I require for a music plugin is to be
>  able to navigate that structure click on a song and have the next tracks
>  follow on. Freevo does this perfectly.
>
>  So my question is: Can the mythMusic plugin be configured do behave like
>  this?
>  Or where is the best place to start to write a plugin that does this? I
>  would really like have a crack at some myth coding...but would be happy if
>  the functionality already was there.
>
>  Thanks for listening,

If I undertand what you want correctly.... (ie to be able to view your
music exactly as its layed out on your harddrive)

You can have MythMusic display your music using your folder structure
instead of by using the ID tags.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythMusic_File_Organization
use 'directory'

-- 
Steve
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